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A Guardian and a Thief

by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author)

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)

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My Struggle, Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgård

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“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

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“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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